Changing horses in midstream (was Re: [TriLUG] FC2 now perfect?)

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 18:15 -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 4/28/05, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > We'll discuss all kinds of things like that in our May roundtable.
> 
> Yeah, I knew that, and I didn't want to stir up a distro war.  I am
> interested to know if anyone has indeed installed a debian-based
> distro (or any other for that matter) in a chroot partition on a
> running linux box.


Hi Rick,

Do you have a spare hard disk or a spare partition (just a few GB is
fine) on that machine or even a different machine?  If so, you could
easily install almost any distro onto it and then copy it over to use as
your chroot-ed environment.  Its easy and it works:

  http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-
formats/html_single/Multi-Distro-Dev.html

And speaking of chroot-like things, Jeremy Katz gave a very neat Xen
demo at FUDCon #1:

  http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/FUDCon1/

during which he did a quick install/setup of Fedora within a Xen
environment on a running Fedora system.

Ed

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